TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO V. M. MOLOTOV FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Dictated:Dictated by phone on August 4, 1921Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeMolotov

Ihave received from Chicherin the draft theses relating
to the policy in Bukhara which has been agreed with the
Turkestan Commission and cur representative in
Bukhara.[1]I vote for approving these theses immediately, polling all
the members of the Politbureau by phone.

[1]Areference to the fulfilment of orders for the manufacture of
electric ploughs. Back in December 1920, the Narrow C.P.C., on
Lenin’s instructions, approved a plan for the manufacture of
electric ploughing machines. It was being realised by the
Extraordinary Commission for the Making of Electric Ploughing
Implements (“Elektroplug”) which consisted of representatives of the
S.E.C. and the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture. Later, its
functions were transferred to the S.E.C.’s Central
Administration for Agricultural Machinery. Lenin kept a close watch on
the making of electric ploughs and demanded that the members
of the commission supply him with regular and exact information
about the fulfilment of the orders (see present edition, Vol. 36,
p. 531;Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 52,
Document 34).